PURPLE MAJESTY When it opens in 2024, the Purple Line will stretch 15.2 miles along the 38th Street corridor, from downtown Indianapolis to Ivy Tech’s Lawrence campus. Like the Red Line, which opened in September 2019, the Purple Line will have electric buses, dedicated bus lanes, and in-median stations that pedestrians can access from both sides of the street.
LOTS OF GREEN Purple Line construction will cost $188 million, but more than 40 percent of that money comes from a Small Starts Capital Investment Grant. In August 2021, the Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation, better known as IndyGo, received about $81 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration. Funding from the transit income tax, approved by Marion County voters in 2016; the city’s Department of Public Works; and…
